c'est la vie

I'm sitting at the gym waiting for people to show up for the 11am class. CrossFit has been slow lately, but I'd like to believe that the reason is that the holiday buzz is beginning. The good news is we have new clients. In the last two weeks we've had 3 people who have jumped on board. I am hopeful that it will keep up.

This last weekend was a blast. On Saturday I went with bethany and Pa to CrossFit Bellevue to see Coach Glassman give his CrossFit 101 talk. There was a workout, food is zone proportions and lots of great people chatting and exchanging contacts. The excitement at any CrossFit event has a rejuvenating effect. After an event like that I always get psyched up to get back to the gym to train and help people be better at life. The workout at the event was tabata abs which is a series of 4 abs exercises in intervals of 20 seconds work 10 seconds rest for 16 min. Usually I can never do enough abs work that I get sore, but I could hardly get out of bed yesterday because of the soreness. After lying there for a while I finally decided to situp and embrace the pain. The first thought that came to my mind was RHABDO. Ouch. I'm better today. Coach Glassman told me that if Papa ever decided to abandon me that he gets first dibs on adoption. I failed to note that Coach Burgener already had first dibs and Coach Rip had second. Oh heck.
Sunday I spent the whole day sitting on the couch nursing my abdominal pain and having a Heroes marathon. That show is addictive, I'm tellin' ya.

Now it's Monday, back to work. Fortunately we only have a three day week thanks to Thanksgiving weekend. Woohoo. The original plan was that Papa would be going to Bozeman for Thanksgiving and I'd spend the evening at MiNan and Andi's(which I wasn't too psyched up about, no offense), but it turns out that Papa will be home and we'll be going over to Oksana's in Sequim for the day. Oksana is really sweet and I'm always happy to spend time with her.

I'll be taking a week off from physical therapy because my doctor's on vacation. My ankle has been feeling so much better. There is less adhesion on the ligaments, lateral jumping doesn't hurt as much, and the overall stability has improved immensely. I've resolved to keep up on my homework.

I finished Brave New World. It is definitely a lighter and more colorful novel than 1984. If I had to choose one of those as the future of society I'd pick the Brave New World, though it's still extremely terrifying. The thing that struck me the most was the absence of emotion and the use of a drug to suppress it. It sorta makes me appreciate pain for what it is.

This new life is good. Honestly I couldn't ask for more except to see my sisters more often. But... c'est la vie. Je suis contente. I will see you guys soon.